Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.
By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.
By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News
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Did you miss the part where they’ve found a birth certificate showing that she was not born on any reservation.
She also made official reference to her birthplace as part of getting married in 1982, just to seal the deal.
Uh, no, she wasn’t. She was born in Maine to white parents.
She may have joined the Cree nation but it seems likely it was under false pretenses.
I’m sure that she has done a lot for indigenous people and deserves some accolades but if she accepted money or awards that was meant for people that faced prejudice and oppression that’s wildly inappropriate.
As a full blooded indigenous person the news about this completely sucks
The message is …
This revelation doesn’t say that much about Santamaria … it says so much about how everyone doesn’t really care about full or mostly blooded native individuals.